Senior Java Developer – (AVP) – Belfast – (Hybrid)
Overview
Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.
What We Do / The Team
- Finance Desk Technology is part of Fixed Income organization within Citi’s Markets Technology.
- The Team works closely with the Citi Global Finance Desk and focuses on FI and Repo trading activity.
- The suite of Finance Desk applications provides position management, trade capture, electronic trading, market risk processing, and reporting.
- This is supported by a mixed technology environment consisting of client-server applications, developed in Java, Angular, and C#, with services running on Linux servers and Cloud Containers.
- We are looking for technically strong candidates who can work as team players and take ownership and lead initiatives when needed.
Role Overview / What Will You Do:
- Responsible for developing and maintaining suite of Finance Desk application as a part of global development team.
- Production of high-quality software, emphasizing simplicity, maintainability, and reuse, using standard development processes.
- Understand business priorities, document requirements, and determine solutions in partnership with other internal teams.
- Accountable for all phases of development process—analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation; provides user and operational support on applications to business users.
- Ensure essential procedures are followed and help to define operating standards and processes.
- Participate in key business initiatives primarily focused on Market Risk and Position/Inventory Management.
- Coordinate global testing and schedule application rollouts.
- Contribute towards improving the DevOps CI/CD Pipelines and Strategic Architecture.
- Monitor and control all phases of development process and provide user and operational support on applications to business users.
- Provide L3 support for production flows.
- Utilize in-depth specialty knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business process, system process, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement.
- Recommend and develop security measures in post-implementation analysis of business usage to ensure successful system design and functionality.
Key Skills and Experience Required:
- Strong core Java skills.
- Experience with Spring Boot/Microservice-style application development.
- Strong experience with Relational Databases like Oracle, MSSQL.
- Experience with cloud-based architectures on OpenShift or Kubernetes.
- Testing experience with distributed software applications.
- Strong experience with Unix or Linux.
Non-Technical Skills Required:
- Experience in working with distributed teams situated globally in different time-zones is a plus.
- Flexible and adaptive, team player.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently.
- Ability to take ownership, drive strategy, and be well organized.
Any Beneficial / Nice to Have Skills and Experience:
- Experience with Messaging and Caching frameworks such as Kafka and Gemfire/Ignite is a plus.
- Financial services experience is advantageous but not essential.
What We’ll Provide You:
By joining Citi, you will be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy additional benefits such as:
- 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- A discretional annual performance-related bonus
- Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Pension Plan
- Paid Parental Leave
- Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
- Access to an array of learning and development resources
Alongside these benefits, Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day.
Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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